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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.






2. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.






3. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)






4. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness






5. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes






6. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.






7. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.






8. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928






9. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






10. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.






11. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally






12. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy






13. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.






14. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests






15. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl






16. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






17. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school






18. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.






19. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.






20. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.






21. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes






22. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.






23. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail






24. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)






25. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun






26. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the






27. Academic Language Therapy Association






28. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with

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29. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.






30. Multisensory Structured Language






31. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.






32. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






33. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.






34. Multisensory Structured Language Education






35. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language






36. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.






37. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.






38. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin






39. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together






40. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag






41. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.






42. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U






43. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel






44. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.






45. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.






46. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.






47. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.






48. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability






49. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships

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50. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.